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Washington’S Affordable Housing Property-Tax Levies: Lessons From The Campaigns, Anna Barcus
Washington’S Affordable Housing Property-Tax Levies: Lessons From The Campaigns, Anna Barcus
Summer Research
While rapid growth and development brings great opportunity to Tacoma, it also brings great challenges. Among these challenges is housing affordability. In response to this challenge, Tacoma developed an Affordable Housing Action Strategy that was released in September 2018. One recommendation from the strategy was an affordable housing property-tax levy. Tacoma had attempted a local housing levy in 2001 and 2005 but failed in both cases. Despite these failed attempts, communities throughout Washington, including Seattle, Bellingham, and Vancouver succeed in passing a housing levy. This research investigates these three successful campaigns throughout the state in order to uncover what made …
A Patchwork Of Detention: Understanding Variation In Community Resistance To Ice Contracts With Local Jails, Manya Mutschler-Aldine
A Patchwork Of Detention: Understanding Variation In Community Resistance To Ice Contracts With Local Jails, Manya Mutschler-Aldine
Summer Research
As undocumented immigration has come to the forefront of mainstream political priorities in the last two decades, the number of immigrants being detained in the US has grown much faster than bed space in detention centers meant to house them. For Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the solution has been to contract with state, county, and local jails. As of 2017, around 850 such jails around the country had Intergovernmental Service Agreements with ICE to rent out bed space. For local jails, these contracts can bring in much needed revenue to keep the jail running without taxing the local community. …